Example sentences of "claim that such " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nevertheless , it can be claimed that such exploration will be discussing a theistic structure found in the Eastern as well as the Western traditions . |
| 2 | For though it might be claimed that such an education would help a child to see more in his immediate environment , and understand it better , yet it would also greatly diminish his chances of going beyond that environment . |
| 3 | Since then , many other doctors who treat food intolerance and chemical sensitivity have claimed that such sensitivity can produce a wide range of mental problems . |
| 4 | It is sometimes claimed that people in many cultures are aware of the ill-effects of inbreeding ( Lindzey , 1967 ) , but nobody , as far as I know , has claimed that such knowledge is universal . |
| 5 | Only by engaging in extreme forms of economic casuistry can it be claimed that such things can be supplied satisfactorily without the agency of government at either national or local level . |
| 6 | Indeed , it was claimed that such ‘ a wide and vague expression as ‘ State maintenance ’ would excite great prejudice and alarm ’ ( Report , 1905 , p. 7 ) . |
| 7 | It might then be claimed that such a form of the text was incomplete or inadequate , because the point which the author wishes to make is no longer accessible from the written text . |
| 8 | It is claimed that such systems satisfy heating requirements at a reasonable cost . |
| 9 | Aid donors had recently taken a tough stance in particular with the Sudanese government for preventing relief aircraft from reaching areas in the largely Christian south , where the civil war against the Sudanese People 's Liberation Army ( SPLA ) was at its height ; the Sudanese had claimed that such relief was being used to aid the rebels . |
| 10 | Although Bouton and his collaborators have failed to establish context-specificity after simple conditioning , they would not want to claim that such an effect can never be seen — there is ample evidence from experiments using rather different training procedures that a change of context can produce a performance deficit . |
| 11 | In a passage which reads very oddly indeed today and betrays his naïveté , Durkheim even went so far as to claim that such was the depressing degree of homogeneity in primitive society that its members were actually physically indistinguishable from each other ! |
| 12 | To claim that such functions are peculiar only to western cultural uses of words is plain ethnocentrism easily refuted by the evidence available . |
| 13 | It is a remarkable feat of cultural self-assertion to claim that such a culture could be taken to , and disseminated among the " multitudes " , of a feat which only the buoyant sense of the well-evident value of imperial colonization could sustain . |
| 14 | They may well claim that such commitments would result in bankruptcy , but if that were the case ( and it seems unlikely ) , the case for a lesbian and gay politics that addresses problems in our social structures remains a strong one . |
| 15 | They would also claim that such forgiveness is important in their lives for , without the forgiveness of God and each other , it is seen as impossible to be reconciled with God . |
| 16 | The ‘ bourgeois economist ’ would certainly claim that such an enterprise was not using resources efficiently to satisfy consumers ' wants and therefore would not merit investment funds and we have to ask whether he would be wrong . |
| 17 | Jesus claimed that such a truth is implied in the Scriptures . |
| 18 | The classicists claimed that such a system was not only inhumane and unfair , but profoundly irrational and inefficient for the task of controlling crime . |
| 19 | He claimed that such irregularities invalidated the order and that it should accordingly be set aside . |
| 20 | He claimed that such ‘ unclear matters ’ had been eliminated following recent high-level Soviet-Indian talks , and cited Rajiv Gandhi to the effect that the principles of non-alignment ‘ provide a legal and political framework for an analysis of the complex and particular problems of peace and security in the Asian-Pacific region ’ . |
| 21 | He claimed that such a treaty would " change the history of North America " and would be an " example to all nations " . |
| 22 | In a letter to Danforth , Bush claimed that such a provision would " seriously if not fatally " undermine efforts to improve US education standards by ignoring general educational qualifications . |
| 23 | Its supporters claimed that such an Assembly , composed of members from all walks of life , would and act as a " complementary institution " which would advise Parliament . |
| 24 | The government 's subsequent decision to acquire the disputed site to build two shrines was attacked by Moslem organizations which claimed that such a decision pre-empted the status of the site , and by Hindu groups which threatened to block plans to reconstruct a mosque . |
| 25 | Carmakers claim that such figures do not compare similar models , and that the price differentials take no account of discounts given to British buyers . |
| 26 | The American media , Moscow admitted , ‘ claim that such a decision allegedly runs counter to the principles of non-alignment ’ . |
| 27 | They extended their warnings to children of divorce , claiming that such children would also experience great disruption in their lives if they were to live in two houses , that is , in the case of joint custody between the two former spouses . |
| 28 | On June 20 Bronislaw Geremek , the chairman of the Citizens ' Parliamentary Club ( OKP-the grouping of deputies elected on a Solidarity Citizens ' Committee ticket ) , criticized the discussions taking place between the Solidarity trade union leader Lech Walesa and the respective leaderships of the PSL and the SD , claiming that such an " alliance " between a trade union and political parties was " unnatural " [ for divisions within Solidarity and the creation of the pro-Walesa Centre Alliance see pp. 37546 ; 37620-21 ] . |
| 29 | The government and the APC resisted increasing demands in mid-1990 for a return to a multiparty system , claiming that such a change would not solve the country 's economic problems and could lead to divisiveness . |
| 30 | In a letter to the policy boards of the two institutions on Sept. 18 , the Institute of International Finance ( IIF — representing 184 banks and financial institutions worldwide ) criticized what it saw as IMF " tolerance " of overdue interest payments to the banks , claiming that such arrears discouraged the banks ' involvement in the Brady Plan . |